on Birds from East Africa. ] 25 



*10. Merops superciliosus, Linn. Blue-cheeked Bee- 

 eater. 



11. Irrisor ERYTHRORHYNCHUs(Latli.). Red-billed Wood- 

 Hoopoe. 



"■ Obtained at Giriana. Feeds entirely upon grubs and 

 insects in the decayed trees.^^ 



12. Anthodi^ta zambesiana, Shelley. Zambesi Collared 

 Sun-bird. 



" This species may always be found on the tall cotton-tree 

 when in flower^ or in our garden sucking the juice from the 

 Barbados Pride &c." 



13. CiNNYRis MicRORHYNCHUs, Shelley. Eastern Bifas- 

 ciated Sun-bird. 



14 CiNNYRiSGUTTURALis(Linn.). Scarlet-chested Sun-bird. 



15. CiNNYRis KiRKi, Shcllcy. Kirk^s Sun-bird. 



This is apparently the same species as that for which Ca- 

 banis proposed the specific name of " kalckreuthi " in the 

 ' Journal fur Ornithologie ' for 1878, p. 227. 



" This and all the preceding species of this genus are very 

 fond of sucking the sap which flows from the young shoots of 

 the cocoanut-tree, when cut, as it oozes into the calabashes 

 put for its reception. ^^ 



16. Macronyxcroceus (Vieill.). Southern Yellow-throated 

 Pipit. 



■^17. Saxicola (enanthe (Linn.). British Wheatear. 



This is the most southern specimen of our common Wheat- 

 ear that I have seen ; but I am informed by Captain Shelley 

 that he has received one from a locality about 100 miles 

 further south, on the river Pangani. 



Mr. Handford's specimen, which is a female, has been pre- 

 sented by Mr. Buxton to the British Museum. 



*18. MoNTicoLA sAXATiLis (Linn.). European Rock- 

 Thrush. 



An immature specimen, but, on a careful comparison, found 

 to be referable to this species. 



